historyofphilosophy.net - Podcast Series Covering The History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps - A8. Episodes 250 - 330

An interview with Susan Brower-Toland covering Ockham's views on cognition, consciousness, and memory.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1490504400?autostart=1

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HoP 275 - Keeping it Real - Responses to Ockham

Walter Burley flies the flag for realism against Ockham and other nominalists.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1491714000?autostart=1

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HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination

Scotus, Ockham, and Bradwardine ask how we can be free if God knows and chooses the things we will do in the future.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1492923600?autostart=1

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HoP 277 - Trivial Pursuits - Fourteenth Century Logic

The scholastics discuss the ambiguity of terms, the nature of logical inference, and logical paradoxes, and play the game of “obligations.”

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1494136522?autostart=1

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HoP 278 - Sara Uckelman on Obligations

Sara Uckelman soundly defeats Peter in the medieval logical game of "obligations."

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1495342800?autostart=1

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HoP 279 - Quadrivial Pursuits - the Oxford Calculators

Bradwardine and other thinkers based at Oxford make breakthroughs in physics by applying mathematics to motion.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1496552400?autostart=1

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HoP 280 - Get to the Point - Fourteenth Century Physics

Ockham, Buridan, Oresme and Francis of Marchia explore infinity, continuity, atomism, and the impetus involved in motion.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1497762000?autostart=1

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HoP 281 - Monica Green on Medieval Medicine

An interview with Monica Green reveals parallels between medicine and philosophy in the middle ages.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1498971600?autostart=1

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HoP 282 - Portrait of the Artist - John Buridan

The hipster’s choice for favorite scholastic, John Buridan, sets out a nominalist theory of knowledge and language, and explains the workings of free will.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1500181200?autostart=1

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HoP 283 - Jack Zupko on John Buridan

Peter speaks to Jack Zupko about John Buridan's secular and parsimonious approach to philosophy.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1501390800?autostart=1

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HoP 284 - Seeing is Believing - Nicholas of Autrecourt’s Skeptical Challenge

The debate between Nicholas of Autrecourt and John Buridan on whether it is possible to achieve certain knowledge.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1502600400?autostart=1

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HoP 285 - Dominik Perler on Medieval Skepticism

The medievals were too firm in their beliefs to entertain skeptical worries, right? Don't be so sure, as Peter learns from Dominik Perler.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1506229200?autostart=1

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HoP 286 - On the Money - Medieval Economic Theory

Changing ideas about money, just price, and usury, up to the time of Buridan, Oresme, and Gregory of Rimini.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1507438800?autostart=1

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HoP 287 - Down to the Ground - Meister Eckhart

The scholastic and mystic Meister Eckhart sets out his daring speculations about God and humankind in both Latin and German.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1508648400?autostart=1

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HoP 288 - Men in Black - The German Dominicans

Dietrich of Freiberg, Berthold of Moosburg, John Tauler and Henry Suso explore Neoplatonism and mysticism.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1509858000?autostart=1

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HoP 289 - A Wing and a Prayer - Angels in Medieval Philosophy

Be surprised by how many philosophical problems arise in connection with angels (how many can dance on the head of a pin is not one of them).

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1511067600?autostart=1

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HoP 290 - Martin Pickavé on Emotions in Medieval Philosophy

Martin Pickavé returns to the podcast to talk about theories of the emotions in Aquinas, Scotus and Wodeham.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1512277200?autostart=1

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HoP 291 - Alle Maner of Thyng Shall be Welle - English Mysticism

Julian of Norwich’s Shewings and the Cloud of Unknowing lay out challenging paths to knowledge of, and union with, God.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1513486800?autostart=1

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HoP 292 - Say it With Poetry - Chaucer and Langland

Philosophical themes in Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales” and “Troilus and Criseyde,” as well as Langland’s “Piers Plowman.”

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1514696400?autostart=1

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HoP 293 - The Good Wife - Gender and Sexuality in the Middle Ages

Medieval attitudes towards homosexuality, sex and chastity, and the status of women. Authors discussed include Aquinas, Catherine of Siena, and Chaucer.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1515906000?autostart=1

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HoP 294 - Isabel Davis on Sexuality and Marriage in Chaucer

Peter is joined by Isabel Davis to discuss marriage, sex and chastity in Chaucer, focusing on the Wife of Bath's speech.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1517115600?autostart=1

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HoP 295 - The Most Christian Doctor - Jean Gerson

Jean Gerson’s role in the political disputes of his day, the spread of lay devotion and affective mysticism, and the debate over the Romance of the Rose initiated by Christine de Pizan.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1518325200?autostart=1

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HoP 296 - Morning Star of the Reformation - John Wyclif

John Wyclif refutes nominalism and inspires the Lollard movement, which anticipated Reformation thought with its critique of the church.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1519534800?autostart=1

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HoP 297 - The Prague Spring - Scholasticism Across Europe

New ideas and and new universities in Italy and greater Germany including Vienna and Prague, where Jan Hus carries on the radical ideas of Wyclif.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1520744400?autostart=1

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HoP 298 - Renaissance Men - Ramon Llull and Petrarch

The Renaissance ideals of humanism and universal science flourish already in the medieval period, in the works of Petrarch and Ramon Llull.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1521954000?autostart=1

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HoP_298_HoP-299__Africana Philosophy Announcement

New paperbacks and a new series!

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1523032039?autostart=1

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historyofphilosophy.net - Podcast Series Covering The History of African Philosophy Without Any Gaps - A12. Episodes 01- 33: Origins of African Philosophy

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HoP 299 - Robert Pasnau on Substance in Scholasticism

Bob Pasnau joins Peter to discuss ideas about substance from Aquinas down to the time of Locke, Leibniz and Descartes.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1523163600?autostart=1

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HoP 300a - The Relevance of Ancient Philosophy Today

Rachel Barney, Christof Rapp, and Mark Kalderon join Peter to discuss the importance of ancient philosophy for today's philosophers.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1524373200?autostart=1

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HoP 300b - The Relevance of Medieval Philosophy Today

Peter King, Catarina Dutilh Novaes, and Russ Friedman discuss their approaches to medieval philosophy, and its contemporary relevance.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1525582800?autostart=1

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HoP 301 - The Empire Strikes Back - Introduction to Byzantine Philosophy

We begin to look at the third tradition of medieval philosophy, in which the heritage of classical antiquity is preserved and debated by the Byzantines.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1526792400?autostart=1

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HoP 302 - On the Eastern Front - Philosophy in Syriac and Armenian

Eastern Christian philosophy outside of Constantinople, focusing on translation and exegesis in the languages of Syriac and Armenian.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1528002000?autostart=1

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HoP 303 - Don’t Picture This - Iconoclasm

Is it idolatry to venerate an icon of a saint, or of Christ? The dispute leads the Byzantines to ponder the relation between an image and its object.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1529211600?autostart=1

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HoP 304 - Behind Enemy Lines - John of Damascus

John of Damascus helps to shape the Byzantine understanding of humankind and the veneration of images, despite living in Islamic territory.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1530421200?autostart=1

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HoP 305 - Andrew Louth on John of Damascus

Peter is joined by Andrew Louth for a discussion of John of Damascus and his theological use of philosophy.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1531630800?autostart=1

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HoP 306 - Collectors’ Items - Photius and Byzantine Compilations

Photius, “the inventor of the book review,” and other Byzantine scholars who preserved ancient learning.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1532840400?autostart=1

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HoP_306_HoP_307___Bonus Episode - Glenn Adamson on Material Intelligence

Peter's twin brother Glenn Adamson discusses the philosophical implications of craft.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1533993586?autostart=1

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HoP 307 - Consul of the Philosophers - Michael Psellos

Michael Psellos and his attitude towards pagan philosophy and the political life.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1536469200?autostart=1

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HoP 308 - Dominic O'Meara on Michael Psellos

Dominic O'Meara speaks to Peter about Michael Psellos, focusing especially on his political philosophy.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1537678800?autostart=1

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HoP 309 - Hooked on Classics - Italos and the Debate over Pagan Learning

The trial of John Italos and other signs of Byzantine disquiet with the pagan philosophical tradition.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1538888400?autostart=1

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HoP 310 - Purple Prose - Byzantine Political Philosophy

Byzantine political thought from the time of Justinian down to the Palaiologos dynasty wrestles with the nature and scope of imperial power.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1540098000?autostart=1

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HoP 311 - The Elements of Style - Rhetoric in Byzantium

Psellos and other experts in rhetoric explore how this art of persuasion relates to philosophy.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1541307600?autostart=1

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HoP 312 - Past Masters - Byzantine Historiography

The larger meaning of history in the chronicles written by Michael Psellos, Michael Attaleiates, Anna Komnene, and Niketas Choniates.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1542517200?autostart=1

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HoP 313 - Queen of the Sciences - Anna Komnene and her Circle

Princess Anna Komnene makes good use of her political retirement by gathering a circle of scholars to write commentaries on Aristotle.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1543726800?autostart=1

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HoP 314 - Katerina Ierodiakonou on Byzantine Commentaries

A chat about commentaries on Aristotle from Byzantium with guest Katerina Ierodiakonou.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1544936400?autostart=1

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HoP 315 - Wiser Than Men - Gender in Byzantium

The role of women in Byzantine society and the complex attitudes surrounding eunuchs: did they make up a “third gender”?

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1546146000?autostart=1

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HoP 316 - Just Measures - Law, Money, and War in Byzantium

Legal and economic thought in Byzantium: the sources of the law’s authority, the relation of church and civil law, just price, and just war.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1547355600?autostart=1

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HoP 317 - Made by Hand - Byzantine Manuscripts

Without handwritten copies produced by Byzantine scribes, we would know almost nothing about ancient philosophy. How and why were they made?

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1548565200?autostart=1

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HoP 318 - Oliver Primavesi on Greek Manuscripts

Peter's Munich colleague Oliver Primavesi tells us how Greek manuscripts are used to establish the text of authors like Aristotle.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1549774800?autostart=1

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HoP 319 - Georgia on My Mind - Petritsi and the Proclus Revival

The Neoplatonist Proclus gets mixed reviews from Christians, as Nicholas of Methone refutes him but the Georgian philosopher Ioane Petritsi helps to revive his thought.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1550984400?autostart=1

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HoP 320 - People of the South - Byzantium and Islam

Intellectual exchange between Christians and Muslims, and the later flowering of Syriac literature including the philosopher Bar Hebraeus.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1552194000?autostart=1

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HoP 321 - Judith Herrin on Byzantium and Islam

Historian Judith Herrin joins us to talk about competition and mutual influence between Islam and Byzantium.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1553403600?autostart=1

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HoP 322 - Do the Math - Science in the Palaiologan Renaissance

Mathematics and the sciences in Byzantium, focusing on scholars of the Palaiologan period like Blemmydes and Metochites.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1554613200?autostart=1

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HoP 323 - Through His Works You Shall Know Him - Palamas and Hesychasm

Gregory Palamas and the controversy over his teaching that we can go beyond human reason by grasping God through his activities or “energies”.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1555822800?autostart=1

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HoP 324 - United We Fall - Latin Philosophy in Byzantium

Thomas Aquinas finds avid readers among Byzantines at the twilight of empire, and is used by both sides of the Hesychast controversy.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1557032700?autostart=1

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HoP 325 - Platonic Love - Gemistos Plethon

Was Gemistos Plethon, the last great thinker of the Byzantine tradition, a secret pagan or just a Christian with an unusual enthusiasm for Platonism?

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1558242000?autostart=1

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HoP 326 - Istanbul (Not Constantinople) - the Later Orthodox Tradition

When the Byzantine empire ended in 1453, philosophy in Greek did not end with it. In this episode we bring the story up to the 20th century.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1559451600?autostart=1

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HoP 327 - Michele Trizio on Byzantine and Latin Medieval Philosophy

The series on Byzantium concludes as Michele Trizio discusses the mutual influence of Byzantium and Latin Christendom.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1560661200?autostart=1

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HoP 328 - Old News - Introduction to the Italian Renaissance

A first look at the themes and figures of philosophy in the Italian Renaissance.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1561870800?autostart=1

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HoP 329 - Greeks Bearing Gifts - Byzantine Scholars in Italy

Bessarion and George Trapenzuntius, rival scholars from the Greek east who helped inspire the Italian Renaissance.

http://podbay.fm/show/396903391/e/1563080400?autostart=1

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HoP_330___ Republic_of_Letters___ Italian_Humanity

Coluccio Salutati and Leonardo Bruni combine eloquence with philosophy, taking as their model the refined language and republican ideals found in Cicero.

https://www.podbean.com/site/EpisodeDownload/PBB7CC6CU9C4E

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